Author: Frederick Clarkson

I love electoral democracy.  I really do. Unlike the Howard Beale character in the classic film Network, who said “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” — the best thing...

The quarter century war of attrition that has been waged by elements of the religious and political right against the mainline Protestant churches in America, has gone largely unchronicled. To read the mainstream press, you...

The Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA hosts an annual student conference on reproductive rights. They have just posted the details of the 2006 event.. One of the features of the...

Gary McCullough has developed a business as the go-to Christian Right PR man in DC. His client list is a Who’s Who of Christian Right groups around the U.S.:  Focus on the Family; Concerned Women for America;...

Are you a dominionist?  I’ll skip over formal definitions, but suffice to say that it’s a general category of people who are theocrats — or people who may be headed in that direction. Given the way things...